From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-11-29T04:12:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Float precision and FIT

On Nov 28, 2005, at 10:07 AM, Ed Howland wrote:

> And second, even after I adjust the HTML to match the results, they
> till don't equal. I am thinking this is because of '==' vs. eql? on
> floats.

No.  Float precision.

> Is there a way coerce a Ruby float to an aribitray precision via
> truncate or round?

For testing float equality do what Test::Unit's assert_in_delta does.

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